Morning came, and Thorne found himself in bed, with the Chimare in his hands, and the snake handle still biting his hands. Thorne then realized that the sword had its will on its own, amplified by the Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit, amplifying its desire to find a suitable owner. As he was still alive, he imagined that the Sword was slowly accepting him, but he was still being tested since the sword was still supplying its poison to his body, testing him further and further.
Thorne then stood up, not shouting or anything, since he arrived here yesterday, he noticed he was further being influenced by Yoriichi's personality, endurance of burden, even at a young age. He then started swinging the sword in his hands, which was fit for his size due to it being alive and adjusting to its owner.
After swinging one by one, he became more and more familiar with using the sword until he subconsciously used the see-through world ability, he increased his speed, swinging the sword with all of his might while observing the changes in his body, Thorne does not have any references to use but he can see that his muscles was contracting more evenly, improving its strength in more places instead of focusing on one part, he continued this routine for about an hour where he hears someone walking in the hallway, apporoaching his door.
"Saint Thorne, breakfast is ready," A maid called out, not knowing about the events that happened in the evening, and just continuing the routine they all do.
"I'll take a bath first before eating," Thorne replied to the maid.
"Would you like me to bathe you, Saint Thorne?" Asked the maid as it was a normal service they constantly do.
"No, I'll do that on my own, tell mother and father that I'll follow for breakfast." Thorne then said while getting ready to take a bath, after 10 minutes of deep bathing and using every expensive-looking soap and shampoo available in their bathroom, after the bath, he then dress himself, he then unpacked the gift of Shamrock, it was the attire of God's Knight that Garling and Shamrock are wearing, just in a smaller size.
Now ready to come down, he heads down towards their dining hall, which was huge. Thorne was just realizing how rich they truly are, with a lot of food on their table, while some countries do not have food on their table to feed their children.
"You looked well-rested," Garling said as if he had not just handed his son a poisonous sword that could potentially kill him.
"I am well rested" Thorne answered coldly, his personality changed overnight, truly knowing what would his parents do, just to preserve their name and reputation with strength, he realized that even as Celestial Dragon, he cannot be laxxed as this was still the One Piece world where the Strong eats the Weak,
"Hmmmm, did something happen? Why do you answer so coldly?" Garling asked, noticing the shift in his son's personality,
"Nothing happened," Thorn answered, with deadpan eyes looking directly at his father, who was shocked at his eyes, also Seraphina looking at him, observing the changes in his son, both of them just quietly sat there looking at their son, then looking towards each other.
After the meal, Thorne immediately stood up without waiting for the instructions of his parents and went out of their castle, with guards following and a slave ready to carry him, but he chose to walk by himself.
"What happened to our boy?" Seraphina asked Garling, becoming worried if they had tested their son way too young.
"I do not know, maybe his true personality is coming out, due to him realizing the weight of the burden he truly carries," Garling answered his wife honestly.
"I do hope he does not change, I still want him to be my baby, but it seems like it will not work the way I want" Seraphina then said to Garling who just nodded, they both then head out to continue their duties, where they would head towards the headquarters of God's Knight.
Thorne who was walking, noticed the celestial dragons going towards a place, he followed them until they reached an arena where the slaves are fighting for their lives, he sat down and watch the fight, noticing how they moved, and their muscle shifts, memorizing and enhnacing it for his use for the future, after a few minutes, the fight ended with one of the lunarian slaves winning agains one of the fishman slave, he then quickly remove himself from his seat and goes out not wanting to watch the battle anymore.
After walking around some more, he noticed a CP0 agent standing in his place outside a castle. He approached it and asked.
"What kind of place is this?" Thorne asked the CP0, who was shocked by the question, but quickly composed himself not to seem disrespectful to one of the highest-ranking members of the government
"It was the Cipher Pol headquarters, Saint Thorne, this is where we conduct our daily training to better protect the Celestial Dragons that we serve so loyally," The CP0 answered, glazing for the Celestials,
"I want to watch you're daily training," Thorne then said, planning to copy their muscle movements and enhance them to better train himself as he was being prepared to be the Supreme Commander of God's Knight.
"Yes, Saint Thorne Figarland, whatever your wish is, my command." The CP0 answered while coming inside and guarding the saint.
Coming inside the facility, many rooms are closed doors, with he hearing something about intelligence gathering, muscle control, everything was being taught. After reaching the open field, he then noticed a Celestial Dragon, possibly a member of God's Knight, sitting and watching the students that was training, almost all of the students he saw were at the age of 10 years old, at his estimate, he then approached the Celestial Dragon who was sitting, recognizing him as the Saint Shepard Sommers, the one that appeared on the latest chapter he was reading in his past life before coming here,
"What are you doing here, little one? Don't you want to play somewhere else?" Sommers said to Thorne, who had just arrived.
"I saw you with your brother yesterday. Who are you?" Thorne asked even if he knew, also ignoring his question
"I asked you first, it's impolite to not answer the question, but asking your question," Shepard explained.
"Fine, I was just curious to see here when I approached, I don't like playing with other people my age, they are all irresponsible and just do whatever they want," Thorne explained why he was here.
"Wrong, they are Nobles, they can do whatever they want, that should be the answer for their actions and yours too. You are a god, you do not need to answer to anyone," Shepard said, explaining the belief that was engraved on him from the moment he was born until now.
"Alright, I am here because I want to, and as a God, I don't need anyone's permission," Thorne said without meaning it.
"Much appropriate," Shepard said while sitting and started just reading his newspaper, wearing just boxers with a heart pattern, not caring if someone was staring at him or not, while Thorne just observed the fighting of every trainee in the field with curiosity and a little bit of eagerness.
"Do you want to join the training?" Shepard asked Thorne who was observing his giddiness,
"Yes," Thorne answered without thinking, which is the answer that Shepard wanted to hear.
"EVERYONE, SCATTER, SOMEONE WOULD BE JOINING YOU TODAY, EVEN THOUGH HE JUST CELEBRATED HIS 2ND BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY, HE WOULD BE JOINING YOU IN YOUR TRAINING ROUTINE," Shepard then shouted to the training CP recruits. All of them looked at the 2 years old kid beside Shepard and recognized him, it was the son of Seraphina Nujishiro and Garling Figarland, he celebrated his birthday yesterday, all of them looked with envy at Thorne due to his birth advantages.
"BEGIN," Shepard suddenly yelled, signaling them to begin their, the recruits started running, sprinting even, as if there is consequences for someone last in the group, Thorne noticing this, also sprinted, ensuring that his speed is in the middle of the group while not burning his stamina, even as a 2 years old, he can keep pace to someone older than him, he then started sprinting faster until he reached the front line, where he saw someone he was only vaguely familiar a kid with curly hair, and a white bird flying beside it,
'That's Rob Lucci and Hattori, I can't believe I would meet them here,' Rob thought while looking at Lucci, as if noticing someone was staring at him, Lucci looked around him until he found a smaller boy, who was able to keep pace with him. Lucci just stared at him while increasing his speed and pace, while Throne just kept up with him. It continued for a little while until they ran their 50 laps.
Thorne was beginning to feel the effects of the workout where he was having hard time breathing, he then thought about the breathing techniques that Yoriichi and started inventing it while running, observing on how he distribute his oxygen from his lungs to his whole body, he then started expanding his lungs to the maximum he can, inhaling as much oxygen as possible, while making a controlled breathing and acelerating his blood flow, keeping up with this pace, he then started feeling the effects, as he can feel that he was not as tired as before, he then started experimenting, one by one until he get the most suitable breating pattern for him, continuing it until the 80 laps, he perfected it to the point that he was subconciously using it while exercising.
After finishing the 100th lap, they were stopped by Shepard, who just looked at Thorne with curiosity.
'How can a 2-year-old keep pace with these recruits who were selected among the best of the best,' Shepard thought to himself while approaching the recruit who was in the last of the line. He then took out his sword and immediately killed the recruit.
"How can you protect your gods if this is the performance you are showing? You can't even contend against a 2-year-old old" Shepard then said to the other recruits, who did not react to the killing of their classmate at the training, clearly knowing the consequences of being the last.
"Begin with the push-ups," Shepard then said, while the recruits all went to the position where Thorne just looked at the dead recruit that was not being cleaned by the slaves, being a reminder of the recruit's uselessness and replaceability,
"Tired already? I can call your brother if you want to go home now," Shepard said to Thorne, smilingly while teasing him.
"No, just distracted by something, I'll start the push-ups now," Thorne said, going into the position to start his push-up, here, he pace himself at first, started slowly, while observing the muscles that was being targeted, until he became more and more familiar with the process and do the movement that can target more muscle groups, this was a much harder variation of push-ups, but he did it faster than the other recruits, becoming stronger slowly but surely, they continued pushing up until 3 hours passed by and it was time for lunch, Thorne then went towards the where the recruits gather until he was called by Shepard.
"Thorne, join me here, I can accept you training with these untouchables but not eating with them, your father would kill me if in the spot if he learned you were allowed to eat with these filthy peasants," Shepard said, inviting him to the table where he had been sitting earlier, Thorne, not seeing any reasons to disagree, he then approached Shepard who was waiting for him before both of them devoured their feast, with Thorne eating foods that can feed 100 people in an island.